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Holiday Motel, Las Vegas

The sign looked cool enough at day, but night... even better!

Freedman's Bakery, an icon on the Jersey Shore, closed it's doors for good in January, after 64 years in business. Opening in 1950, it quickly made a name for itself, thanks to their renowned rye bread, and keiser rolls. At it's height, Freedman's had 42 stores along the Jersey Shore. This was their last remaining bakery. No word as to what will happen to this beautiful googie neon sign. An end of an era.

3030 South Bundy Drive

Santa Monica, California

Located at 15th and Market in Ballard. The building later became a Denny's, and was demolished in 2008 after a landmark designation was overturned. Item 189742, Neighborhood Architecture Photographs and Surveys (Record Series 1629-02), Seattle Municipal Archives.

Architect: Herman Ruhnau (1957)

Location: Riverside, CA

South Hills Shopping Center

1960

Nikkor 50mm f1.4

Cool zoomy big arrow googie sign for Deano's Motel on Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City

 

Image appears courtesy John Drury, Pacific Neon

Research credit: Gretchen Steinberg

Formerly located at 5006 E 2nd St, Long Beach, CA

Shame this sign has fallen into disrepair.

In my favorite side of Vegas (i.e. the rundown side). I wanted to take a picture of the Tod Motel across the street, not only because it is awesome-looking, but because "Tod" means "dead" in German. My battery ran out, though.

120 South Orchard Ave.

Vacaville, CA

 

Been meaning to photograph this one for 5 years now. Finally got around to it.

Citizens (née Mellon) Bank, Pittsburgh

1965

I had the day off last Friday, so I went down to Wildwood and brought my Pentax 67 loaded with expired Kodak Plus-X 220.

Pleasanton, CA - August 2015

Built in 1956, Lincoln's Pershing Auditorium hosted major events in town: concerts, plays, dances, graduations, sporting events, rodeo, etc, as illustrated by the fantastic mid-century mosaic that covers the western facade. Since Pinnacle Bank Arena was built (and really, since the Devaney Center in the early 80s), the Pershing has seen fewer and fewer events until it was finally closed in 2014. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_Center

I'm pretty sure this is not an old sign, but it sure is old-school cool!

Washington Ave, near downtown. Is it lit up at night?

Now this is a sign that's SERIOUS. Amazing and it's for nothing more than a little liquor store in Dallas!

I sold this postcard a while back but kept a scan.

scans from the archives. nikon n90s + fuji velvia RVP 50. the ruins of the abandoned sundowner motel on the west shore of the salton sea. the motel burned in 1998 and was bulldozed several years later.

I love this new sign in Oklahoma City -- long live Googie!

Former Neba Roast Beef restaurant

St. Louis, MO

 

Originally opened in 1933, but updated in the late 1950s in the Googie style. Located at 13221 Whittier Boulevard, Whittier CA.

 

Shot with a Canon 30D and processed in Lightroom.

A nice little bit of Googie Signage on the East end of 66 in Flagstaff.

 

www.spaceagecity.com/googie/

Didn't expect to drive on Route 66 on the way home from Palm Springs. More on this in a bit.

An iconic 50s coffee house which is now a restaurant.

Wish I knew who designed this beauty.

 

I thought this used to be a US Forestry Service Visitor Center. It's currently abandoned and probably in danger. I was challenged by two workers who were incredulous that anyone would possibly want to take a picture of the building.

 

Photo published in:

Mountain: Portraits of High Places

Written by Sandy Hill, Text by Raul Barrenche, Robert Macfarlane, Jennifer Jordan and Nando Parrado

 

Pub Date: October 11, 2011

Format: Hardcover

Category: Photography - Nature & Wildlife

Publisher: Rizzoli

ISBN: 978-0-8478-3402-0

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